By:harriet 27 July 2022

NEWBORNS
Newborns
In the rst year, babies learn to
focus their vision, reach out,
explore, and learn about the
things that are around them.
Cognitive, or brain
development means the
learning process of memory,
language, thinking, and
reasoning.
Growth
From birth to age 6 months, a
baby might grow 1/2 to 1 inch
(about 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres) a
month and gain 5 to 7 ounces
Senses
(about 140 to 200 grams) a
week. Expect your baby to Babies are born fully equipped with all the necessary
double his or her birth weight senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
by about age 5 months. Babies are born with all senses, but they vary in
strength. Their sense of smell is one of the strongest,
Movement
and will continue to get stronger for the rst 8 years
Although a newborn spends of their life. It's also an essential sense to help them
about 16 hours a day sleeping, feel comforted and promote the development of
the time a baby is awake can their other senses, especially taste and vision. Vision
be busy. Much of a newborn's is the least developed sense at birth as the womb is
movements and activity are a dark place and there is little opportunity for
re exes or involuntary--the
development. Vision, like hearing, does develop
baby does not purposefully
make these movements. As the
rapidly over the early years of a baby's life. Babies
nervous system begins to are essentially born legally blind but do have some
mature, these re exes give way visual preferences even at birth.
to purposeful behaviors.

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